Well...some good economic news for once.  At least good if you're American.  Unemployment "unexpectedly" (the adverb is Business Week's) fell to it's lowest level in 2 1/2 years in November.  The overall unemployment rate is down from 9% to 8.6%.  Paul Krugman* will find bad news in there somewhere.

*Spellcheck for Krugman is "Frogman" and "Krugerrand."  Spellcheck rocks.